Preaching to the converted I know, but: A laptop that's in the shops today is going to be hardly faster than one from two years ago. In the 90s it would have be

Preaching to the converted I know, but: A laptop that's in the shops today is going to be hardly faster than one from two years ago. In the 90s it would have been but the pace has slowed down a lot since then. Possibly a good candidate for just doing a reformat?